Society must be defended : lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault(
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)32
editions published
between
1997
and
2014
in
4
languages
and held by
815 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault taught at the College de France, one of the most unique and renowned institutions
of higher learning in the world. The College enrolls no students and confers no degrees. Professors are required to deliver
lectures to the general public on topics from their ongoing original research. During his tenure at the College, Foucault's
teaching, which reached audiences that frequently numbered in the thousands, profoundly influenced a generation of scholars."
"These lectures, reconstructed from tape recordings and Foucault's own notes, are now being made available in English for
the first time. Under the guidance of series editor Arnold I. Davidson, Picador will publish all thirteen volumes of the lectures
in North America." "In "Society Must Be Defended," the inaugural volume in the series, translated by David Macey, Foucault
traces the genealogy of the problem of war in society from the seventeenth century to the present. Inverting Clausewitz's
famous formulation - "War is politics by other means," Foucault explores the notion that "politics is war by other means"
in its relation to race, class struggle, and, of course, power. Providing us with a new model of political rationality, he
overturns many of our long-held ideas of sovereignty, the law, and even truth itself. The full significance of the dictum
"Society must be defended" becomes clear when Foucault's examination culminates in an extraordinary discussion of modern forms
of racism."--Jacket

The hermeneutics of the subject : lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-1982 by Michel Foucault(
Book
)11
editions published
between
2005
and
2006
in
English
and held by
520 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the College de France,
one of the world's most prestigious institutions. Faculty at the College give public lectures, in which they present works-in-progress
on any subject of their choosing. Foucault's wide-ranging lectures influenced his groundbreaking works like The History of
Sexuality and Discipline and Punish. In the lectures comprising this volume, Foucault focuses on how the "self" and the "care
of the self" were conceived during the period of antiquity, beginning with Socrates. The problems of the ethical formation
of the self, Foucault argues, form the background for our own questions about subjectivity and remain at the center of contemporary
moral thought. This series of lectures throws new light on Foucault's final works and shows the full depth of his engagement
with ancient thought. Lucid and provocative, The Hermeneutics of the Subject reveals Foucault at the height of his powers."--Jacket

On the government of the living : lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980 by Michel Foucault(
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)3
editions published
in
2014
in
English
and held by
173 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of 'regimes of truth.'
Following on from the themes of knowledge-power and governmentality, he turns his attention here to the ethical domain of
practices of techniques of the self. Why and how, he asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of
obedience and submission, but 'truth acts' in which individuals subject to relations of power are also required to be subjects
in procedures of truth-telling? How and why are subjects required not just to tell the truth, but to tell the truth about
themselves? These questions lead to a re-reading of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and, through an examination of the texts of
Tertullian, Cassian and others, to an analysis of the 'truth acts' in early Christian practices of baptism, penance, and spiritual
direction in which believers are called upon to manifest the truth of themselves as subjects always danger of falling into
sin. In the public expression of the subject's condition as a sinner, in the rituals of repentance and penance, and in the
detailed verbalization of thoughts in the examination of conscience, we see the organization of a pastoral system focused
upon confession.--

Subjectivity and truth : lectures at the Collége de France, 1980-1981 by Michel Foucault(
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)7
editions published
between
2016
and
2017
in
English
and held by
39 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"[Foucault] must be reckoned with."--The New York Times Book Review PRAISE FOR FOUCAULT'S WORKS IN THE LECTURES AT THE COLLÈGE
DE FRANCE SERIES "Ideas spark off nearly every page ... The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s] but they seem as alive
and relevant as if they had been written yesterday" - Bookforum "Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are ..."
- The Nation "[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual
codes and ask new questions ... [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture." -The New York Review of Books "These
lectures offer important insights into the evolution of the primary focus of Foucault's later work - the relationship between
power and knowledge." - Library Journal